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L‘s foremost satire that storm. An {, different n hailed by , refreshing. md a joy. this time was kinds of HIGHWAYS râ€"one of the with other underworld. ities of CASE" havc eup- who com- LS passionate. discriminating lover of the best music. Today I had far rather hear good music than hear anything else on earth. works of Beethoven and Wagner. To me this sounded terrifying: but being willing to educate myself I enquired of a. cultivated lady it she thought it would be worth my while to attend. "It will be heavenly!” she said. I thought she was lying. Music breeds liars. Talk about religious cantâ€"I have heard much more artistic and musical cant than I have heard of the sancti- -â€"L L- A... "DIV vvâ€"vvâ€"â€" monious brand. Then I went to an- other woman, and she told me it was my duty and it ought to be my pleasure to go. -_ . Q! .. 1-....-L AL- Lag-n I went. Never shall I forget the bore-‘ dom. Thomas was a great conductor, he had a competent orchestra, and the compositions were by Beethoven and Wagner. I suffered horribly. “Oh, if they would only stop. or play a tune!’ After a while they did stop. I whisp- ered. “That’s over!” My. neighbor said, "That's only the first movement.” I had no idea what a movement was, but I was sure two would be worse than Come in 3: Chat Awhile one UIIL . Some of my fellow suflerers in the audience were asleep. Some other men had awakened suddenly from a nap to sit up straight and glare defiantly round. as if to say. “I dare you to say I have been asleep!” Others were try- ing to look intelligent, exactly the way. people look when a lecturer quotes something in a foreign language. But instead of looking intelligent, they looked depressed. Apparently they thought that music should produce melancholy and that it they only looked sufficiently sad, some one might think they were appreciating it; But I knew they would be relieved when the con- persons who were in bliss. It. was no pose. I could not endure the thought that something splendid was going on and I was missing it. And I began to believe it was not the fault of Beetho- ven and Wagner. I I. Whatw ah iaiot I should have been if I had gone home that night and said. "Never again! I am not musical.” Then BOW 1'0. LOVE MUSIC by Willi“: *1.an their. “fly, I"! a w 1 might hue mused one}! W_W whst enormous and exquisite delight I! have received from music, with what passion and intensity I love it, it seems stance that the very music I have en- Thinkincitoveratterthstconccrt, I 'ssid to myself, “There must be some- thing great here. I don’t get it.” I .wenttothenext concert. Itwosslmcst reached this state of bliss not by study, not by reading books, but by listening with all my might. I Suppose a business mm is sitting in his oflioe and a. visitor in whose Judg- ment he has confidence sets forth a will make a million dollars. The bus- iness man gives the matter his entire attention. He is not thinking of wo- meh, or of golf, or of any other matters. He gives the visitor his attention be- cause there is “money in it” Well, that is the way a man should listen to music. He should concentrate his entire list- ening power. Listening in that way is not passive, it is active. It is the out- .pouring of the energy of the mind. Professor Horatio Parker, a distin- guished musical composer, told me he thought I enjoyed music more than he did. He could not hear music without analyzing it; whereas I simply listen to. the collective effect of the har- monies. Furthermore, he had that very rare gift, absolute pitch, so that the slightest deviation by any player in the orchestra tortured him. I do not know how that is. All I know is that I have never seen any one who loved the best music more than I, or who got more delight from it. Thus, while I wish I were a musician, I know that neither a knowledge of the theory of music nor the ability to play an in- strument is necessary to one’s enjoy- ment. Any one may have this happi- ness in his life who will take the trouble to listen. RUINS 0F ANCIENT CASTLE UNEARTHED BY EXCAVATORS the monument- which will be erected to the United States Army at Mont- faucon (Haute Loire) have unepyered Godfrey of Bouillon, Duke of Basse- Lorraine, who led the First Crusade in. 1096-99 and became the first King of Jerusalem. Thus, in commemorating the exploits of modern warriors, an ac- complishment of an ancient hero is revealed. The ruins, which are in some respects well preserved, consist of gal- leries and a staircase. They were un- covered at a depth of about ten metres. Earthen pots and stores of calcined First Irishman: “Pat, what’s that piece of blank paper you have in your hand?” Second Irishman: “Oh, that’s a letter from my wife.” F1: “How do you mean a letter from your wife? Sure there’s no writing on it.” Second Irishman: “Of course not. The missus and myself are not on Workmen preparing a fgpqdation for And Her Ideas From Paris wefe also found. FINE JAPANESE MANNERS ARE BEING UNDERMINED ."VV“ one sort or another is the fact that hara-kiri is declining in Japan. The American movies are responsible for it rather than the American missionaries. Contrary to common belief, suicides in Japan ° are not greater than in some other countries. The average rate is 220 per million inhabitants a year. In Saxony the rate is 392, and in Switzerland 239. In the United States it is 180, in England. 75, in Scotland and in Ireland 17. Why more Irishmen do not do away with themselves is a prob- lem that has often puzzled sociologists and others. The usual explanation is that Ireland is a Roman Catholic coun- try and that the Roman Catholic Church encourages its adherents to bear those ills they have rather than to fly to others that they know not of. But Belgium, whose rate is six times as great as Ireland’s is also a Roman Catholic country. The answer would appear to be that after all Belgians are Belgians and Irishmen are Irishmen. The Japanese rate, nevertheless, is shocking enough. The wonder is that it is not higher since the tendency in Japan is to pay honor to the suicide, especially to the suicide who chooses AI 44_ A-.-- L‘n I‘ln *A nm‘KUl, all“ VIIUD a. V ya: on" ___ v _ _ vindicate his honor. Between the or- dinary suicide and the ceremonial hara-kiri, a vast gulf is set. The Way Out The origin and development of the custom is traced by Oland D. Russell in The American Mercury. While the word itself is often poetically trans- Hated as “the happy despatch” it comes __- - -_... II‘AM“I, lam ” III“; .Iwrra wV~r _ , from the Chinese and means literally “belly cutting”. The tonier Japanese prefer to speak of it by the synonym “seppuku”, just as Englishmen prefer the Latin “abdomen” to the Saxon “belly”. It was in the Twelfth century that hara-kiri came into existence and then was merely the means seized by vanquished warriors on the field of into the hands of the enemy. It spread through the military and samurai ; classes and gradually became thorough- ly established and took on new conno- tations. As time passed a ceremonial developed with it, and now hara-kiri has become a ritual as rigid as that of marriage or a funeral. It is no impulsive act like the ordinary suicide but a carefully considered one to achieve a certain definite end apart from the mere ending of a life that has become insupportable. It is invariably the vindication of honor, a final proof any: 555w snow -w---- jot or scruple of “that chastity of honor which felt a stain like a wound.” Incidentally. if one were searching for magic in prose this is a good example of the gems of thought he might come across. NOTED TRIO AT LONDON CHARITY PARTY “Big Bill” Tilden as he appeared with Elinor Glyn, authoress (left) and Lady Wavertree, at the latter’s annual tennis tournament at Sussex Lodge Regents Park, London. The ournament is an annual event of the fashionable London season and was in aid of charity. {has gives his pie that death. Members of the samurai class who had got into serious trouble were? permitted to kill themselves rather than suffer the ministrations of the public executioner. The same principle held good in China until recently, when high ofiicials, suspected of treason were UAW now.â€" -â€"â€"- __ . prepared meal,‘ ablutions, and a! garbing of the victim in ceremonial fashion. He chooses a position in the' best room in the house with his gods looking auspiciously on, and usually re- inforced by a photograph of the em- peror. He squats on the floor, with his heels under him in such a manner that he cannot i all back. Then he bares the upper part of his body, and takes in his hand a short sharp knife with the andle wrapped in a towel. The point of the blade protrudes barely an inch below the towel. Then with a final salute, the suicide plunges the knife in the left side of the abdomen as far down as possible, and draws it across to the right side in one horizontal stroke. He then draws it upward at right angles for several inches. Having done this he leans for- ward with great resignation, permitting _ 1.-.... -Dâ€"v' r..- the Japanese his own quletus makes. It will be recalled that Gen. N031 and his wife thus destroyed themselves the Edgar Allan Poe of Japan, a man loyalty to the emperor. In his race he threw a chair at her, injuring her hand. The female communist made a fearful hullabaloo about the incident ‘and distasteful notoriety was brought } upon the captain. to whom it then be- _7,__ -l 5-..“. Rn m m. .a m mMm w.mm wmammm . wwwmwmam ”Mum Mmmmwwm .m Mm mnwammmww mmwmmmm . .m. m “Mnnm mmmm Hm W m m st m.ud mmmm w mmmm mwwumWMMMmmm mm :m gm” mmmmmmwwmm ; mm»; muomwmmmm “m ammmmmms mmm: ha An old colored man was before a justice on a chute ot mult. During the proceedings the judce asked him it he wanted 0. lawyer to de- fend him. “No, no. Judge," he replied, “I don’t wan’ no lawyer, but I sutinly would like a couple 0' good witnesses it you could get ’em." 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